A hate crime is a type of crime that someone commits because of a person's <em>gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other difference. </em>It's not always necessarily physical. Sometimes people use offensive words or harassment. The main motive for this type of crime is who the person is or what the person appears to be.
A person committing this type of a crime is usually triggered by one's race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender people... Hate crime is a crime in which the victim thinks it's based on someone's opinion about them.
